Converting thoughts to video; We are Officially in the future!

[Jabberwock xeno]

The future has offcially arrivied.

Spoiler: Cure for AIDS/fox news putting video games in a postive light

Almost check, and check.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/05/16/apparent-immunity-gene-cures-bay-area-man-of-aids/ http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/...s-research-that-stumped-scientists-for-years/

Spoiler: Heinsburg uncernity principle sidestepped

Check.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/06/02/science-heisenberg-uncertainty-steinberg.html

Spoiler: Duke Nukem Forever released

Check.

Spoiler: MS cured

Almost check.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-viagra-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms.html

Spoiler: Restoring memory in Alzheimer's paients

Practically check.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-s...ory-in-alzheimer-s-sufferers-115875-23208738/

Spoiler: Energy Crisis

Check.

Spoiler: Controlling goverments tracking people/censoring speech and chaotic networks of oppostion groups.

Check.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-07-29/news/29848111_1_house-panel-isps-bill http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...essors-protect-ip-act-is-unconstitutional.ars (Thankfully blocked by Senator Wyden, is still a threat) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement http://torrentfreak.com/database-of-u-s-internet-pirates-will-be-decentralized-110906/

Spoiler: Marty Mcfly's shoes for sale

Check.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/all...nike-mags-come-to-life-behind-the-laces-.html

Spoiler: Commercial spacecraft

Check.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/113214-Commercial-Spaceship-Factory-Opens-in-California

And recently:

Spoiler: Faster than light travel

Check (kinda, and honestly, I don't see this as a big deal, we already know about quantum entanglement/teleportation)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news...hnica/index+(Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content)

Spoiler: Converting brain activity to visual information such as video or images.

Check.
http://gallantlab.org/

Now where is my jetpack?

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Seriously though, I think the last one is probably the most signifcant scientific breakthrough we've had in a long time.

Withen our lifetimes, it is likely that we will be able to get at least 2003-20005 cell phone quaility video from our own minds. (Interesting things to note: the kirby tv show, Zatch bell, Winnie the pooh, Super mario bros, duke nukem, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Ask a Ninja, Mythbusters, Tom and jerry, the yellow submarine, Halo 3 MP footage, the sonic anime, and various other anime/video games can be seen in the second video)

 

[JochemDude]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with our minds. I'm looking forward to that.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with are minds. I'm looking forward to that.

Well, there's a game called mindflex that allows you to make a ball float via thought activity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindflex

 

[StrixMaxima]

I look forward a future with less emphasis on the technical, and more emphasis on the human.

 

[Pegghead]

Funniest thing, when I was way younger there were these two places: The Powerhouse Museum in my hometown of Sydney and Questacon in Canberra.

I went to this powerhouse a few times growing up, and there they had A TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTER, I was like "HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE FUTURE" even though it had horrible touch-detection, and in Questacon they had an old machine wherein you wore a helmet, thought really hard about a line in one direction and it would show up on a screen.

Now that one version has become super advanced and is available on the market, it's nice to see the other wonder perhaps getting the same treatment. Wierd, isn't it? Like how my grandmother told me how she used to get scolded for reading comics with rockets and space explorers only 30 years before the Moon Landing.

 

[Blunderboy]

Not until we get Wall mounted Keyboards [http://princessleia.com/sounds/MST3K/mounted_keyboards.wav] it isn't the future.

I fully expect at least some of you to get this reference.

 

[pigmypython]

Pretty neat though; hopefully these techs turn out to be marketable, otherwise we will never see them no matter how well they work.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Oh goody... Another way for oppressive governments to control the human population. Each and every person with the ability to see could potentially be turned into a piece of CCTV-surveillance equipment.

Be afraid. Be very afraid!

What im looking forward to though is when we'll be able to transfer that kind of stimuli directly to our own brains a la "Strange Days" or perhaps a la "The Matrix".

And just imagine how the porn industry would simply EXPLODE if you could stimulate your brain to think that you're actually in the process of boning your favourite pornstar. XD

 

[Chasing-The-Light]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with our minds. I'm looking forward to that.

There is actually a game out there that you can play with your brain. They have a game that people who are recovering from brain trauma can play using their brain. It's kind of like Asteroids, if I remember right.

Anyway, I'd love to see what kind of images they could get from my brain. It's only a matter of time before we have Minority Report sort of scenario, where they can link a persons head up and be able to project memories onto a screen.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with our minds. I'm looking forward to that.

There is actually a game out there that you can play with your brain. They have a game that people who are recovering from brain trauma can play using their brain. It's kind of like Asteroids, if I remember right.

Anyway, I'd love to see what kind of images they could get from my brain. It's only a matter of time before we have Minority Report sort of scenario, where they can link a persons head up and be able to project memories onto a screen.

Indeed.

I'm more intrested in the applications of this in art and such though.

A person could make anything they could imagine, the entire market for art, films, and even games would run entirely on orginallity and content, not who has the buggest budget/time.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I still cannot believe this happened....

It's amazing.

Anybody have any creative ideas as to what this could be used for?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No it hasn't. It's still only the Present.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

No it hasn't. It's still only the Present.

Way to ignore the actual topic

Seriously though, does this not excite you at all?

 

[Doclector]

CERN effectively broke our entire established reality (or so it seems). Tell me that ain't cool.

Also, when the whole mind-reading thing was mentioned over breakfast in my uni apartment, I ran to my cupboard and wrapped tin foil around my head saying "NOT ME BRO!".

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

CERN effectively broke our entire established reality (or so it seems). Tell me that ain't cool.

Also, when the whole mind-reading thing was mentioned over breakfast in my uni apartment, I ran to my cupboard and wrapped tin foil around my head saying "NOT ME BRO!".

See, but isn't quantum entanglement/teleportation also FTL?

I was under the impression we knew electrons could trnasmit FTL info already.

 

[Doclector]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with our minds. I'm looking forward to that.

There is actually a game out there that you can play with your brain. They have a game that people who are recovering from brain trauma can play using their brain. It's kind of like Asteroids, if I remember right.

Anyway, I'd love to see what kind of images they could get from my brain. It's only a matter of time before we have Minority Report sort of scenario, where they can link a persons head up and be able to project memories onto a screen.

Indeed.

I'm more intrested in the applications of this in art and such though.

A person could make anything they could imagine, the entire market for art, films, and even games would run entirely on orginallity and content, not who has the buggest budget/time.

You mean...I could literally mess with people's minds without the need for psychological film tricks? Hmm...on the one hand, I would find it hilarious to be able to break entire audience's minds so easily. On the other, meh, wouldn't it be less fun? I mean, the thrill is in the chase, never in the complete loss of psychological stability.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No it hasn't. It's still only the Present.

Way to ignore the actual topic

Seriously though, does this not excite you at all?

That was a joke, and thus you completely missed what I did there.

 

[Doclector]

CERN effectively broke our entire established reality (or so it seems). Tell me that ain't cool.

Also, when the whole mind-reading thing was mentioned over breakfast in my uni apartment, I ran to my cupboard and wrapped tin foil around my head saying "NOT ME BRO!".

See, but doesn't quantum entanglement/teleportation effectvily also FTL?

Dunno what quantum entanglement means, but I ain't messing with teleportation. and if I do, I want something awesome to get in the pod with me instead of a fly, like a tiger or something. Or a dragon. or nathan fillion.

And hell...they broke reality, man! They achieved what a heady combination of hippy music and hallucenigenic drugs have been trying to do for years!

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I wonder when we're going to be playing games with our minds. I'm looking forward to that.

There is actually a game out there that you can play with your brain. They have a game that people who are recovering from brain trauma can play using their brain. It's kind of like Asteroids, if I remember right.

Anyway, I'd love to see what kind of images they could get from my brain. It's only a matter of time before we have Minority Report sort of scenario, where they can link a persons head up and be able to project memories onto a screen.

Indeed.

I'm more intrested in the applications of this in art and such though.

A person could make anything they could imagine, the entire market for art, films, and even games would run entirely on orginallity and content, not who has the buggest budget/time.

You mean...I could literally mess with people's minds without the need for psychological film tricks? Hmm...on the one hand, I would find it hilarious to be able to break entire audience's minds so easily. On the other, meh, wouldn't it be less fun? I mean, the thrill is in the chase, never in the complete loss of psychological stability.

No no, it doesn't work like that.

You'd have to physically tie them down and put them into the machine, and even then they would have to be focusing on what you want them to visualize.

I think it has far more use as a tool for people that can't talk/write to communicate, or as a way to make art/videos.

Imagine all the great stuff you have perfectly visuilized in your head, but don't have the skill to paint/draw!

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

No it hasn't. It's still only the Present.

Way to ignore the actual topic

Seriously though, does this not excite you at all?

That was a joke, and thus you completely missed what I did there.

No no, I got the joke, I was just trying to get you to discuss the actual topic as well.